Taking stock: eight years of highs and lows, Part 1

Looking back over the 400 editions that Financial News has published since it launched eight years ago this month, it's surprising how many dramas in finance are still being played ou

By

Margareta Pagano and

William Wright

March 22, 2004 5:00 p.m. GMT

Investment banking

April 1 1996 - Deutsche über alles

Insatiable ambition in the pursuit of global domination has been a recurrent theme at the investment banks throughout our existence. Few have been so aggressive or successful as Deutsche Bank. In our second edition we reported that Deutsche Morgan Grenfell was hiring between 75 and 100 analysts, salesmen and marketmakers for its new equity marketmaking division. In May that...